Of Hurricanes Past
George Finkbohner Jr. explains that his mother had a theory. “She used to say that a big storm rolled through Mobile every 10 years,...
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The bold, black headline of the April 29, 1951, edition of the Mobile Register exclaimed, “Robert Vogeler, Cold War...
The Perfect Pond
A couple of years out of college, I was still living with my parents in Point Clear, but I was ready for a...
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Yes, a lynching took place on the southeast corner of Church and St. Emanuel streets (when those two streets used to intersect) in...
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For several years during the 1950s, the reigning Miss America would come to Mobile to open the city’s popular Azalea Trail. Perhaps the...
A Brief History of the Shotgun House
Learn more about the history of the shotgun house and the new generation taking aim at repurposing them for a multitude of uses.
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ABOVE LEFT Amelia Townsend McTyeire was a Mobile native whose husband, Holland McTyeire, a former minister at St. Francis Street...
Mobile Ironwork
In 1864, in response to protests from the Mobile Daily Register for better illumination Downtown, the City of Mobile erected more than...
Ordering the Myths and Facts
Organized into three brief parts to make it accessible even for those who don’t normally like reading histories, Ann Pond’s new books cover the...